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Description: | Privately printed memoir with few dates (28pp, written in 1971) of her service with the VAD at 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth (Autumn 1915), at 24th General Hospital, Etaples, and 54th General Hospital, Wimereux, before her discharge in early 1919, covering her first aid training at Hampton Court (August 1914), her duties replacing the medical orderlies, her promotion to nursing duties, her first impressions of France and duties on the isolation ward, raids over the hospital, concert parties and other entertainment, dealing with mustard gas wounds (end of 1917), poor weather conditions and heavy casualties, and celebrations on Armistice Day.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Voluntary Aid Detachment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bush, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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